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Johnson said he was proud to sign the order to develop a Black
Reparations Agenda.
“Thank you very much. God bless you. And God bless the Blackest
city in the world, the city of Chicago,” Johnson said.
Jeff Fiedler of the Chicago Republican Party said the
reparations issue is probably going nowhere.
“When the mayor announced that he wanted to do a reparations
task force, you could hear a couple million eyes rolling in the
city of Chicago. This has failed on so many levels. It’s failed
in San Francisco. It’s failed in other places, because it’s all
talk. It’s all virtue-signaling,” Fiedler said.
Fiedler noted that the mayor has lost support in the Black
community and in other minority communities.
The city council budgeted $500,000 to study reparations in the
current fiscal year. The study is set to begin ahead of the
November elections.
Citing systemic racism in previous administrations, Johnson said
his administration will work with the City Council Black Caucus
and dedicated allies to rectify decades of deliberate
disinvestment in Black communities.
“We saw the harm when previous administrations sold off public
assets. We saw the harm when previous administrations closed
Black schools and they shut down public housing, when they
raided the pensions,” Johnson said.
Chicago Republican Jeff Fiedler said Johnson and Chicago
Democrats are trying to change the narrative in communities
where the mayor has lost support.
“They’re all trying to reshape their image right now, five
months before a national election, which could have a major
impact on what’s happening in their world and what’s happening
in our world. We all live in the city and work in the city as
well,” Fiedler said.
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